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Professor Andrew Parfitt - Pro Vice Chancellor & Vice President, Division of Information Technology, Engineering & the Environment, University of South Australia

Andrew Parfitt received his BE and PhD degrees in Electrical & Electronic Engineering from the University of Adelaide. From 1987 he was with the Defence Science and Technology Organisation at Salisbury in South Australia where he worked on antenna and radar related problems. In 1992 he joined the academic staff of the Electrical & Electronic Engineering Department at the University of Adelaide. From 1995 to 1997 he served as Associate Dean in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Adelaide, responsible for undergraduate and curriculum matters. In 1998 he joined CSIRO Telecommunications & Industrial Physics (CTIP) in Sydney, and in 2001 became Leader of the Space and Satellite Communication Systems Team. He has been responsible for a number of antenna and radio system research programs and contracts, including the development of antenna proposals for the Square Kilometer Array Radio Telescope and the construction and commissioning of the FedSat Ka-band transponder system. He led the Advanced Radio Frequency Systems program in the Cooperative Research Centre for Satellite Systems (CRCSS) until March 2003, when he was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the CRCSS and concurrently General Manager for Space Programs in CTIP. In June 2004 he became Professor of Telecommunications and Director of the Institute for Telecommunications Research at the University of South Australia while continuing as CEO of the CRCSS.  In August 2007 he took up the position of Pro Vice Chancellor and Vice President: Information Technology, Engineering and the Environment at the University of South Australia.

Professor Parfitt has published over 100 technical papers in conferences and journals, mainly in the areas of antenna design, integrated radio frequency systems, computational electromagnetism and satellite systems. He is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers and a Fellow of Engineers Australia. He is presently Chair of the Australian Academy of Science National Committee on Radio Science. He has held adjunct appointments at Adelaide University, Sydney University and Macquarie University.